Ranking The Wrestlers Who Defined WCW

One minute WCW is the most exciting wrestling show on TV, the next it’s a cautionary tale. We sit down and build our personal Top 10 WCW wrestlers, and the arguments start immediately: do you rank pure in-ring skill, star power, or the people who made Nitro feel like must-see television? That debate takes us from NWA-era memories and classic WCW vibes to the Monday Nitro boom years where characters, entrances, and attitude changed everything. 

We run through picks like Goldberg, Vader, Sid Vicious, Konnan, the Road Warriors, Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, DDP, Sting, and the original NWO core, digging into what each name actually meant to the company and to fans watching at the time. We also talk about the WCW cruiserweight division and why it still sets the bar for fast-paced, high-impact storytelling, plus how certain wrestlers evolved from “great worker” to undeniable character. 

Then we zoom out to the bigger question: what killed WCW? We break down ego, creative control chaos, storylines that never ended, and infamous moments like Starrcade 97 and the Finger Poke of Doom. We also get real about Booker T, why representation matters, and how championship booking can elevate or undercut a legacy. 

If you grew up on WCW Saturday Night, Clash of the Champions, or Monday Nitro, you’ll have a strong opinion on our final shared Top 10. Subscribe, share this with a fellow wrestling fan, and leave a review, then tell us who we left off your list.

Transcript

Welcome And WCW First Memories

SPEAKER_00 0:02

Oh, so I gotta do a video.

SPEAKER_03 0:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:06

Okay. Yeah, all that stuff. She's gonna be still gonna know how to cut. Okay, cool. Yeah. Yo. Welcome to the second episode of Respectful Your Wong. And we got that off in the first episode, at least once. I won't say at least once he was able to say that line. But I feel like we're gonna say uh more so about our own list this time. Because on this episode, we talked about errors like on the first episode, the attitude of the second episode, we're gonna talk about a whole company. Yes. In the system WCW? Yeah. Wrestling? What world championship wrestling? World championship wrestling. And do you like you before we talked about it on the vibe? Your memory of WCW goes back further than the mass. So I was just about to say when you say world championship wrestling, it's like I'm gonna go NWA. Yeah. It's like prior to WCW, yeah, Ted Turner, World Championship Wrestling and all that, you know. Again, you know, born in '83. So seeing like NWA, Starcade, uh, that kind of thing going on. Woof. Yeah. So yours is I I'm interested to see your list and see how different it is from us. But I feel like there's some of the people we're going to search. Definitely there's to be some. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

Because of the top names, yes. Yeah. It doesn't matter what. Of course. So, but yeah, no.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

It's crazy because you asked me last night was who's my favorite wrestlers? And like that's what I told you. I was a WW kid. So all of my favorite wrestlers, all my top five favorite wrestlers come from WCW. Of course, they're all in WWE or WWE at some point, but all my top five come from WCW. My six would be the rock. It was my time. Um just uh dude, one of the greatest things that I got to do. Uh like we talked about in the last one, you know. I love the independent wrestling. Huge fan of going in business and like seeing these independent shows. They're fucking cheap.

SPEAKER_02 2:18

They're you know, they're a great time. You get to see these wrestlers who either A have just been released in their contracts, you know, with like WWE or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

So you get to see them for

From WWF Kids To WCW Fandom

SPEAKER_01 2:30

a more authentic, like, yeah, affordable, up close, you know, experience. You can see guys before they go into WWE, like when they come up. It's just a really fucking great time. And look, one of the shows that I've gone to was MLW uh had done a couple different shows down there at Center Stage in Atlanta, which is where they used to take the WCW Saturday shows.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

So it was really fucking cool just like being there in that same venue where WCW used to just like tape all of the main shows.

SPEAKER_01 3:07

Yeah. What was the oh, what was the Saturday show? Um there's Nitro. There's Nitro on uh Monday, Thursday and Saturday and WC Saturday night. Saturday night. On the while, I was thinking it was a different day. Yeah, Saturday. Yeah, Saturday night, yeah, correct. Yeah. And then I was like, what's this? They do like green ones. I'm saying this is uh W City being worldwide. Okay. I thought I wasn't true, but like yeah. Okay, cool. Now, uh, we're gonna get

Indie Shows And WCW’s Atlanta Home

SPEAKER_01 3:40

to the list. I'm ready. I'm sure. As ready as I will ever be. Okay, cool. It's yeah. Drop in the right now. That's all I'm good. I'm well, my number 10. It's actually my sister's favorite. The reason I went to a WCW

The Lists Begin With Goldberg

SPEAKER_01 3:55

event, Gober. I feel like I cannot do a WCW list without listing Gobert. Was he a great technical wrestler? Absolutely not. Not gonna sit here and pretend like he was, not gonna sit and pretend like you know, I watch a little bit of wrestling now. They get on J. So for all his he has botches. Goldberg did not deliver Spears at the rate all the time. No we can ask Brad Hart about that. He did not subject obviously, right? But was he a technical wrestler? No. But what was does his impact matter? Absolutely. Oh god, you can't do that. Goldberg. Absolutely. Goldberg was to WCW what's Stone Cold. And I mean, it's no coincidence. I don't feel like it's a coincidence, how they both looked. So simple. Goatee, black trumps, very basic, you know what I'm saying? Very just like coming and kick your ass. We're stone cold, we're doing like the promos and no fingers, you know, and all the other stuff. You know, Goldberg just like in out one done. In the magic the undefeated stream, to start out. It also viewed the legend of Goldberg, wasn't it? It made him that icon that he was. So yeah, I couldn't I couldn't do this without starting to burn. I like that. So my number 10 is still bird. I'm gonna be a horrible person with violence. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

Yep, he just made me quickly realize that it's not even I'm an horrible person, it's just the difference like he's talking about.

SPEAKER_01 5:38

Yeah. So my number 10 is Goody Vader. Because Vader, yeah, man, Vader's impact when he came into WCW was just so he had a results, man. He just came off that runt over in Japan, you know, and he came in with the fucking mastodon thing. And it's like I read when I think of WCW. I just think of these people from back in those days. So I think people like the beta. Those are just it's those because I've never reached the WCW. So okay. I like the beta. Can I tell you I was telling you about honor dimension?

SPEAKER_00 6:20

Yes. Because we used to go over the person, I don't see that.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

Yeah, my mother, I have broke down, but then I did a Google and I was like, I brought all my names down quit. And then I was like, let me Google to make sure I can get a guy. So then Goldberg, I was like, I did not get Goldberg. But when I was taking my honorable mention, I forgot to go. My honorable mention special wow. I get it. He was on the list. Yeah. He was on the list. Yeah. He was he did get replaced, but he was on the list. He didn't look, man, he went out. Kind of, he kind of. But he let that company, you know what I'm saying? He had just finally gotten his recognition to the world champion. But I feel like too little too late. And that's obviously that's how he felt too. Like, thank you for finally recognizing me. I'm gone. But yeah, yeah, someone. Again, man, if you stop at it, to separate the person from the art. Couldn't know like button. No, no, but he held down. Held down a little too well, it caused him a little bit of issues. Nobody delivered a headbutt like my man. Sorry, sorry. So, you know.

SPEAKER_02 7:41

She's going back to watch a Benoit headbutt. Like you can really tell he put his all into it. I said honorable. Later on in life, you would also tell that he really put his all into it.

SPEAKER_00 7:50

I said honorable mention, but I could get I did a copy of that's just another nine.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

So whatever that is the four horse. I just don't put the house thing. So he ended up making my list. I forgot I crossed out. So I had Rick Florida originally. But then I crossed out Rick Florida and I put, no, I put all of them. R Anderson, um, was uh Malinko. That's not how you pronounce it. No, it is. Are you malinko? Yeah, I thought I almost thought I was wrong. Yeah, that's Dave Malinko. D, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, cool, cool. So yeah, no. But I forgot I did that. I saw cheated. I put a whole stable Dave Malenko was you. He was it? Are you serious? No, I thought he was there towards the end. Okay. Uh we not the original four horse something like that coming. I don't even think though he ever made if he was ever in the I know of Steve Mongo McMichael.

SPEAKER_02 8:48

Okay, Chris Benoit, yeah, Ric Flair, Arn Anderson. Yeah. Then after that, Arn Anderson retired.

SPEAKER_01 8:55

He brought in uh Kurt Hennings for a brief moment to do the thing. That he was gone. I don't know if and I don't really remember after that what happened. Did Monika become a wisdom? That's still exclusive.

SPEAKER_00 9:16

Okay, the original Oswer Anderson, old, old Anderson.

SPEAKER_02 9:21

Old Anderson, Tully Blanchard. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:26

So let's look the original bury window. And you notice that belt over there? That's in that case.

SPEAKER_02 9:34

Everybody from the original pool horseman minus Rick Flair.

SPEAKER_01 9:37

Sign for that. Why did I think there's no type Dan Molina? Dan Dan Molino. So yeah. So it says Google says never member for Dean Linka. It said it was there. Was it? That's what it says. See, that's what I'm saying. Like, there's gotta be a point that I just don't remember. Because it does sound right. But I'm looking, but uh uh call a colt or hologrest, their website don't listen. So I don't know. I might got that right. But I even look at it from there. That's what I'm saying. Like, it just it's just it sounds right, but I don't remember it. Is this a thought is

Vader And The Honorable Mentions Debate

SPEAKER_01 10:25

that one of those Mandela things? Explain the Mandela thing. Do you know the Mandela thing? No. You know how to spot this one. You don't know the meeting. I feel like once you explain to me, I'm gonna be like, oh yeah. Okay, you know, uh, we're like let me try to deck them out so it's oh Shazia, the movie with Sidney. Okay. Anyone hear me with that? Yeah, no, you don't, it wasn't I watched it. No, you didn't. What did I watch? I don't know, but that's how I wrote that. And I'm just gonna go see if he was only up like yeah, I didn't like that.

SPEAKER_03 11:19

Yeah, so okay, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 11:25

He wasn't in uh Suzanne, he he wasn't a niggas, in a 90s.

SPEAKER_03 11:44

Nandal looked like yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

Cousin, which was Shaq too. Yeah, the Shaq one. No, I'm talking about the Sin Manters. It said no, it was my so what is that? We all remember this movie, bro. We all remember this movie. I remember specifically sitting there watching this foodie on HBO with my brother. I know this is going way off the topic, but yeah. It's not he said it was real. Sin that confesses ammo people shouldn't. Okay, cool. Let's go on a whole nother. We're gonna have to. Yeah. Okay, but that once you once you like said, once you explain it, it's like, oh yeah, yeah, I never heard of that. But that was okay. I saw him all to ask. Give me started. Okay, so yeah, I did I did a cop out of number nine. Number nine, who was not? I cheated. Number nine said vicious. I thought about him, but like his one that in the end were his query, unfortunately, off that top road thing. Yeah, what are you doing, dude? Uh

Mandela Effect Detour And Back

SPEAKER_01 12:55

oh, didn't you know what he's saying? Okay, but yeah, man, like I feel like even prior to you.

SPEAKER_02 13:06

What?

SPEAKER_01 13:09

Yeah, yeah, you thought you were exactly.

SPEAKER_02 13:12

I guess one for you. That's why the fuck is smiling.

SPEAKER_01 13:14

Fuck yeah, look. But no, man, like, you know, even prior to him leaving the first time around the early 90s, he comes in there Sid Vicious, and before he did his first WWF run, he just had such a presence. You know, he yeah, it's just such a big didn't he ever he had a tag team to somebody else? I can't remember skyscrapers. Was he in the skyscrapers?

SPEAKER_00 13:44

Uh uh I don't know. That might be before your time. I was gonna say, don't give me the lie. Yeah, don't give me a lie, don't get me the lie. Oh look, you got one.

SPEAKER_01 13:57

Uh let me stop about my uh aka's in the first or tag last. Yo, that's a great one, Brad. Sorry, we getting off topic a little bit, but that's great. I love you. If you don't use it, I swear I will.

SPEAKER_02 14:25

Oh no! That is life.

SPEAKER_00 14:30

Oh, yeah. We have to do it. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:32

Okay, let me stop before I get in trouble. Oh no, we're eight separate. Go ahead. Cat cool. You gonna judge me. Now my judgment up this one. Oh, he don't judge anyway, but yes. Conley. Yeah, I went there. I was a beam wolf pad, AWO Wolfback, and Coney. I don't I know he was in LWO too, but yo, Coney was so cool to be dog. I don't care. It's one of those, it's like I might got top 10 when we do the officials, but for my personal, yo, Conan was so fucking cool to be, bro.

SPEAKER_02 15:18

I'm just gonna say, uh, I get it.

SPEAKER_01 15:22

Like, because back then, if you if you like fucking

Sid Vicious And Big Man Presence

SPEAKER_01 15:25

sing me, you know what I'm saying? 16-year-old Joe back then was oh no, hey, I didn't let it last you know that all that stuff. So yeah, dude. Conan back then was like, nah, you'll face how are you? How are you? Are you good? Okay, I just want to check. Bro, he knows I don't know what he does sometimes, man. He just he does his own thing. You do chill. That was thank you. I guess mine because of that uh again, Bill, thinking of you know, I'm saying like early 90s and late 80s. Conan. Conan doesn't make that less. Yeah. I just pick what yeah, what I get it. I get it though. I can see why he was on yours. That's what I say, but you got like you said, we come, we started at two different earnings on it. We picked it up at two different times, yeah. So and you know, I can appreciate it because when I was watching around that time of the wolf pack and everything,

Konnan And The NWO Wolfpac Cool

SPEAKER_01 16:40

oh god, yeah, they conan came in there like just fucking gangster. Mm-hmm. So yeah, I was on it. I'm gonna go with uh Ronnie Packers.

unknown 17:03

Shit.

SPEAKER_01 17:04

Yeah, yeah. Uh you are you realizing you don't have him on yours? No. Oh I'm not gonna change it neither, but you heard me say fuck yeah. How did you go? Yeah, dog.

SPEAKER_02 17:19

I know. Like his I don't really remember. I do remember some of his earlier 80s NWA stuff.

SPEAKER_01 17:30

He had the fucking uh the dog collar match, I believe it was Greg Valentine at a Star Cade. And oh god, if you ever go back and check that shit out, his blood is absolutely amazing.

SPEAKER_02 17:42

But yeah, like his work there was so awesome, but then when he came back to fight uh against Hogan and the NWO, it gave new light to him.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

Like it helped, it helped him to have, you know what I'm saying, one war one in Brussels that I felt like he deserved.

SPEAKER_02 18:02

Yeah, because he was he was over in WWF and he was just kind of like, you know, doing a commentator thing. You know, it is what it is. But I feel like people like him and uh Savage, they still had so much more luck to give.

SPEAKER_01 18:16

So that's you know, they come over WCW, right? Yeah, I I miss I missed oh like I said I mean you go miss somebody, it's a girl that's oh yeah. Uh yeah, I'll mess that one up. Okay,

Roddy Piper And Late Career Revival

SPEAKER_01 18:30

cool. Sarah Kevin Ash style. Oh yeah. And I know you could cook them separate because they but to do they came there. That's a package or outside or a package. Yeah, yes. So yeah, I get speaking along the lines of cone. A cone. I'm from.

Scott Hall’s Story And PTSD Talk

SPEAKER_01 19:01

But Stan also. And I know he was cool as well, he's all as a way up. He just couldn't. You ever watch uh uh you ever watched the documentary on him? The only thing about like his so you know like he was uh like he was a diamond stud and WCW priority to like AWA for that and sucking. He was I think he was Scott Hall there. I don't know. But like he uh he was on bouncing at a club. Haven't seen it. My money killed Zulley, yeah. Like it was self-defense, he got off, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, but you could tell, like, when he talks about it, you know what I'm saying, his documentary. She never got opened. Yeah, like that stuck with him. That was one of those things that honored.

SPEAKER_00 19:54

You know, I always wondered that about people like you said, the people that the Uber puts up the things. Why not? You know, even the autopsy, okay. And then, you know, they did it, you know.

SPEAKER_01 20:05

Are they ever actually okay, or do we just a T E? I feel like it really because of personal saying I don't know. I don't want to say this, I don't want to say that you can do it without that everything about it again, you have nothing to home, trumpets or whatever. But I feel like most people it would stay in the back of your head. You know, like you would, you know, especially depending on what kind of circumstances it was. Like obviously, somebody got a gun in your head and you fucking had a gun and you shot and killed them, you're not gonna feel the same as if, oh my god, somebody came out in front of my car on accident in a dark night. Yeah, it's gonna play a whole different kind of factor in your head. Yeah, I I didn't take that into account. Circumstances. Yeah, circumstances, yeah. Thank you. That's the one. Definitely. But even like even the people who you know, somebody walked in front of you later night, or you had to you know get with somebody to have a gun in your head, still, buddy, does it uh does it go away? But like you say, if it goes away quickly, I don't want to say you ain't got no more. Especially if I people that's in the army in the special ops, they gotta go in killing a bunch of people. So it's like they are machine at that point. I'm gonna tell you, uh I have a friend of mine back in the day. Uh he went and he went into uh he went into the army and quite a whole lot. And and so, you know, he goes over there, he does his tour, he comes back out, and a couple years go by, and him and another one of my friends come over to the apartment, other than that. We'll just talk you know, text nothing like that. I'm not a guy who's gonna bring up a whole lot of that. Kind of stuff because obviously you just came back from the war. I don't it's not that I don't want to know what you've seen, but I don't want to bring that up because I don't know what that might bring up in you. You know what I'm saying? I don't know if I'm gonna trigger somebody PGSV is a real damn thing. Yeah, I don't want to, yeah, I don't need to do that to you. I can't say the same thing for my friend. So we sit over this drinking, and he's like, hey, tell him the story, telling the story about you know saying guy. And I can just see on his face, he fucking tells me the story. I I don't want to say against his will, but you would say he really didn't want to. You could tell the further that he went into this story, man, he did not want to name it. It was watching somebody relive it in real time. I don't think about you can get over this shit. Yeah, I don't think he can. No. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

Cause you we not most of us don't think, hey, I want to go marry somebody.

SPEAKER_01 23:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:04

So then level on the kill somebody to that, and then you gotta continue on with your life. Yeah. Knowing that person, man.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

Yeah, no. No. No track. Oh, but he says, I didn't have to see that documentary.

SPEAKER_00 23:19

I might have to sit down and watch it.

SPEAKER_02 23:21

It's really good, man.

SPEAKER_01 23:22

It really gives an insight to his life and like the types of things that because you know, obviously everybody knows that, you know, he fought so many like addictions and things like that, you know, that ultimately led to his early death. And but yeah, man, it's like seeing those kinds of things that he fought with.

SPEAKER_00 23:44

But I got how in the ass shit seven. And like you said, you can't separate two.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

They meant a lot to WCW. I know WCW was big before, but once them two got there, along with that man on your can, it took them to another effort. Stratosphere. Yeah, another effort. Yes. Who I have written down as number seven is not who I'm going to say is number seven. Because as we were talking and I realized, like, like sitting now, the whole of WCW and the whole length of time

Road Warriors Respect And Tag Legacy

SPEAKER_01 24:30

I was watching the timeline. I realized that there was people on there that I couldn't leave off. Number seven, the Broad Warriors. Man, when they were there back in the day, bro. I don't know if you know about like late 80s Road Warriors. I know more about them than I know. Than you know about Legion to Dune. Yeah. Yes. Exactly. That's why I said Road Warriors, not Legion to Dune. Legion Dune was cool, but Road Warriors, man, Road Warriors would like you up.

SPEAKER_04 25:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:13

They had the whole thing with uh dusty roads with the blinding him or stabbing him in the eye with one of their uh the shoulder pads. Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 25:24

Dude, the two came around and you knew it was business. See, I didn't think about it. I didn't think about that. Oh man.

SPEAKER_03 25:37

Okay. Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 25:52

I keep saying it on everyone about every most of the people I'm hoping. I started on Conn, then I went to style. You can't tell

Eddie Guerrero Love And Dirty Dom

SPEAKER_00 26:00

it's like cool.

SPEAKER_01 26:01

All the people that's two of them that's on the same level of coolness as Eddie Guerrero. It's got all of me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:08

You know what I mean? It's what, dude, Guerrero talent in the ring.

SPEAKER_01 26:15

I don't. Have you ever seen any of his work outside of like WCW WWF? No. Oh. Like his stuff over in Japan, his stuff down in Mexico, ECW R.

SPEAKER_03 26:31

Whew.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

Incredible. I didn't go in a roll. He had the matches and he sold everything. The L. When he finally, like, because he always had, he always had the talent in the ring. You know what I'm saying? Like in the ring, it was there. But when he finally stepped over to being that persona and doing the fucking promos and and like the character. He really started.

unknown 27:10

No.

SPEAKER_01 27:12

We talked about on the last episode, like Undertake and his character. I didn't even sold that character. Yeah. Until now that he's been like present-day Dominic. That's how great that character was then now Dominic can run him in the same way. He just writing all of every everything Eddie did. And it still looks good. Yeah. It still looks good, but that's because we all it's partially because Dominican Dominic be like uh what's it?

SPEAKER_02 27:40

He still plays that character like Eddie was my real father or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 27:44

Yes. It's uh it's a credit to it's a credit to Dom.

SPEAKER_00 27:50

I'm not trying to take away Nettle to Dom, but it's also how much love everybody has to Eddie, and then know that story. Then know that character. And like he said, you can make me say that's my real dad.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

Yeah. Dom's gonna be special too, and that's gonna play a ball. Hey, dude, I was not expecting Dom to be what he is already. Like just seeing him when he first came in, you know, it was just like, oh, you know, that's cool.

SPEAKER_02 28:17

Like, you know, it's race, you know, give him some time, like he'll be good, you know. But like, no, this motherfucker came in like balls to the wall.

SPEAKER_00 28:25

You know, the best thing that ever happened here was when he left his dead.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

That's the best thing. And then he turned here, and he's trying to fight the best dude. He wasn't so I was actually I was actually watching him last night. Oh, is it triple A? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was actually watching the last night. Yeah, Dom is special, and he's going to the team special. Yeah. And he's so he's still so. I don't want to say green, because I know it's not the worst. He's still looks such a rocky way. When you're gonna say something to be a senior, he's still a raw talent. Yeah, he's still raw. I think green is fine. I completely raw talent. Yeah, yeah, no. Green is fine. Once he gives him, I'd say yearless, he's going to oh yeah. And he's going to continue to be playing. He might go down like a top 15 all time. Like, I'm trying to think of that's crazy when the rock ended. I don't I have to go back and look at this, you know, but how long did it take the rock to get to going from Rocky Mindia into The Rock? Yeah. Because I almost feel like Dom has gone from Dominic Mysterio to dirty Dom in a fucking quicker time. But sure, with the other thing that for both of them was thing as infractions. Uh-huh. So oh yeah. He was able to build a nation, uh, nation. And then Dom is actually judgment that exactly. So it actually helps them build their career around other people's. Didn't continue elevate me because uh the rock had Ron Sentence. Yeah, one sentence was in Dow uh Finn Dallas. No. And the fact that he never came with the first universal champion and he ain't been a champion of since it's it was so unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is, yeah. It was, man.

SPEAKER_02 30:32

And like I feel like, yeah, just like when you said on like because this motherfucker had that title.

SPEAKER_01 30:38

Was it the SummerSlam where he separated his shoulder and then put it back in place to go with the night to finish the night? Yes. Like, come on, man. Y'all didn't it didn't get it, he had to relinquish the title of the night today.

SPEAKER_02 30:53

It ain't been a bad level of championship. I'm saying, like, dude, just on the fact that that man was like, you know what? I'm gonna pop this right back into place and finish this up.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

Y'all, come on, do something with us. That's all that's all good. Did they give him a tag team champion? I know we talked about WCW, I'm gonna make it quick. They give him a tag team champion in the both two times he held in the recent, he don't defend it. Him and his tag team brought on the baby, they defend it right. They are holding for seven, eight months. They don't have two defenses. Yeah, okay. Man have two defenses. Yes, sir. That's not the L C. Yeah, WCW,

Finn Balor Frustrations And Booking

SPEAKER_01 31:30

okay. So are we gonna we're gonna? Oh, yeah, my man. We had six. I had and you had energy arrows. I have Ricky Steam. I'll understand one yeah. I'll have to stay a lot of that.

Ricky Steamboat And Classic WCW TV

SPEAKER_01 31:50

Yeah, this is gonna be a very interesting what's my gun go like the movie. If you think if you're like my age and you think of WCW, most most people are gonna think Ric Flair and Ricky Stephen. Just an inseparable pair, man. I kinda that's fucking peanut butter and jelly right there. That is that makes me want to watch that, just think about it too. I'm gonna have to watch some more of that. Man, I was I was a WWF kid, man. Like my own dad, ultimate warrior, ultimate warrior and everything. But our landlord at the time, he uh he would always talk about WCW and Ric Flair, Ricky Steamboat. So one day I turned it over and started watching it. So it was like Clash of the Champions. It was on TBS, you know? It's like the version of a free paper view. So I checked it out and I'll just fuck with this. Lord, what is going on on this show? And Zicky Steam, Ricky Steamboat. I've seen Ricky Steamboat matches. But of course, not to all my stuff, Ricky Steamboat is YouTube. Just go make that clear. I'm gonna make that clear. All my Ricky Steamboat stuff is YouTube. All of it is YouTube. Actually, most of my gonna say most of now Florida, I'd let's say most of my florist stuff is YouTube, but it's a I wouldn't say that. Nah, most of my florist stuff is actually white. Yeah. Watching wall and WCW at the time. So yeah, I wouldn't say that. But yeah, no, Ricky Steamboat is definitely YouTube. So I don't know it like you. That's why I said it's gonna be very interesting because of the time flesh. See it like build up for you know what I'm saying, with all the time. Yeah, I just said it was it was something else. Cool. Uh my number five.

Macho Man’s Star Power And Voice

SPEAKER_01 33:56

This person I forgot, and I'm glad I did. A quick, like, let me Google again because I can't believe I left him off. My truck man is my number five. I know a lot of people don't have him hired. This is my personal list that you can tell me I'm wrong. Some of it ain't gonna respect it. I understand. I completely understand. But from my personal perspective, I got my truck man at five. The sun dips like that. All right, you know what? I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna take the D y off of me real quick, Jim. Okay, but I'm gonna make myself sound a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 34:38

I don't even have it on my list.

SPEAKER_01 34:42

Which makes me feel bad. He said, did you at least think about him, or he just didn't come up? Because if you forget him, that's one thing. So when I think of Savage, the first thing that I always think of when I think of him is I go back to early WW. That's where I'm at, you know what I'm saying? Like thinking hit. When I think of him in like WCW, him in DVD, like D, I don't know if Dr. Stuff that maybe. But yeah, when I think of WCW, he just doesn't. He doesn't register. He doesn't, yeah, he doesn't register in my head. Yeah, I understand it. He doesn't tap fires.

SPEAKER_00 35:26

Yep. So yeah, no, no, I do understand that. But yeah, I love Mr. Macho Dan Red Simpsons. Them Sun June commercials is iconic.

SPEAKER_01 35:36

I'll say even with the new people in there. I'll put LA Knight, they'll put whoever in the world in there that got, but at the very end of it, is he still here? Boom, yeah. Goes back to him. That's the voice. Oh, my God, that voice. Yo, they like you say the LA Knight, Bianca, they tried, but at the end, go make to that woman. His markability, you know. He doesn't be like marking him the way that they did also help with that shit, don't yes, well, yeah. No, man, well, macho man. And if you ever have you ever seen one of interviews of him or whatever, like not prone on to any character. Actual interview, yeah, yeah, but like actual interviews, like talking. One or two, not bad. That's that's in my awesome. That is the great human. I hate that he was gone.

SPEAKER_04 36:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:32

Yeah. I hate I hate that he didn't get his recognition before. Is he in the holiday now? Yeah. But I believe he I believe. I just feel like I really wish he would have gotten the things, you know, before.

SPEAKER_03 37:09

Yes, in 2015.

SPEAKER_01 37:12

Uh 2015. Yeah, he died in 2000. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:17

He's a two-time WWE champion and a four-time WCW war chance.

SPEAKER_01 37:23

Oh, watch it was fucking. You know he's he did play for uh the Red Birds in one day. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love him. I did, you know, you know how I mean you go down your rabbit holes and stuff and just do you start you start reading people's wikispedias and you start learning stuff about him. Yeah, that you would be like, you shocked. Like, I'll be forgetting that uh like Deon Sanders played a little bit. He played at the he played at uh played the uh the bats too. He did what he played with the little bats. Yeah, played for the bats? Yeah, but he played for the systematic ribs, and you know Cinematic Reds, the minor team isn't the bats. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, hey, hey, I think, you know, some some sorts. Uh so the only thing that I remember, and this wasn't bad, though, this was Red Birds, Ozzy could say to him. Mm-hmm. Yep. I remember that. Because that was like a huge deal that Ozzy was gonna be down, right?

SPEAKER_00 38:24

Uh King Delta Jr. Of course, this was more like rehabs.

SPEAKER_01 38:28

Didn't know about that either.

SPEAKER_00 38:30

Yeah, but that's the thing about being, you know, the minor lead system for the society. You get some, you get some uh you get some Cincinnati Reds, been ever playing the little. Yeah, like I said, uh uh things Dream's war is uh I'm coming back and danger, well, we're gonna take a couple of them. Yeah, you took play at 32 down there. Yeah, you know, make sure I got 84. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:51

Yeah, no. If you go to the go to the back, you'll see they they got like posters up. Any arm right here to check that out. Yeah. I'm gonna put it fast. I go, I try to go busy. I mean to, but I didn't make a test. I'm disappointed in myself, right? I did make a lecture.

SPEAKER_03 39:12

I do try to make a lecture. Number five.

The Great Muta And The Mist

SPEAKER_03 39:20

Great Luna. Time on that. I was gonna say I thought of it, and then I was like, I wouldn't be lying.

SPEAKER_01 39:37

I know more history, but if I'm actually talking about my own, yeah, I can't, I can't and that's what it is too. Like, so if we're going out, obviously, this is just your own. When I have these images of WCW on my head, yeah, a lot of nitro, you know, memories hold, but just like with anybody, man, the Cory Child's memories are so strong, and some of my fucking 401s were sit with freaky steamboat, Rick Flair, but great Buddha in that damn mist on like staining anybody. Yeah, so it's gosh. I wanna say when could be going to Ben C W. I mean WWE. I had it, but I thought I had it hold on. I wanna say those dude was like 20 top 20, top 25, I won't say. Yeah, because I had the list pulled up 50 Girls Stars and WC Bug. Where are we at? I saw his name on her because I remember uh I was gonna have judgment because I had I had uh Conan in my top 10. That was a they had catch his jacket though too and some scroll. Yeah, I understand. Oh, okay. 31. The brand new. Yeah, they had

Rey Mysterio And Cruiserweight Magic

SPEAKER_01 41:11

yeah. I guess in the brain scheme of things, I suppose.

SPEAKER_03 41:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:19

Number four, which is something I was gonna talk about. Yeah, time was to be able to eat the mass. He had that baby face, but then he had the earbreak in there, and he's like, you know, he what the size of his microphone it was slain and giants. He said it's like the size of his all the great moves, the way he would fly around the ring, it's like you know, I've seen some of his stuff in Mexico, yeah, some, some, but Drake, yeah, dude. Yes, Ray is the cruiserweights in the WCW. Yeah, that was a real cruiserweight division. That was incredible. Because you had and you had right, you had A, Chris Ray, Jericho, Psychosis, uh, Yano, four, five, six. You had fucking Blitzkrieg. You had uh uh what's that twice now? Uh six. Oh said it. I could I'd be done, I'd be forget his other name. Yeah, there's a whole like debate on where that name came from, too, because if you look at it like uh he was the sixth member of the NWO, so six, but also he was the one, two, three kid in WCW one plus two plus three, six. Yeah, so like yeah, I don't know if he ever, you know, if they ever came out and said, like, we're the kid. Yeah, if they're just kind of let it go. Ryan Mr. Wheel about the baggy, he was the bad many price assassin full of the bagplace assassin. Ryan was the very soul. I'm gonna go with the cruise way myself. This was just way out there, I just mentioned. He was not allowed to go on. He came in so late in the WCW. I want to say he was 99. Like my man did not have the long time there, but watching him to form was just his name. I said, Oh, that was his name? Oh, yeah. Because I'm looking, I remember all the yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's heal. I didn't when you were saying that, I'm like, I don't know who it is. But then I Google it and I seen the pictures, like, oh yeah, yeah, I know who that is. He was amazing to watch it. Like just watching him before was it better.

SPEAKER_03 44:08

So these are my three favorite wrestlers in order.

Top Three Revealed NWO Sting DDP

SPEAKER_03 44:27

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 44:29

Okay. He's the institution. He's number one. I know. I understand. I know how important Steam is. I get it. But for my arsenal. Yeah. Again, respectfully, I could be wrong to Zope. Again, I will be respectfully. But for me, arsenally. It's Sting is through. It's just Stingis. A little bit of thing. I get it. I get it. Uh I feel as like a little like. He's three now, Joe. They might not even have him on the list. Hey, hey, look, I'll three. Not judging. It's the way you get you very high to not judging it. You very hesitant. So that's why I'm like, Joe, he's three. I'm curious to who your top two are. I think I at least I know one of them for sure. Uh but yeah, I'm curious to uh think you do. I got the whole NWO, but nothing. Well, maybe not like the whole company.

SPEAKER_02 45:46

Like, hold on. Hold on.

SPEAKER_01 45:50

Which NWO are we talking about? Like, how the which NWO are we talking about? I don't know. That's literally the whole company. I can't even think of a person who did like part of the NWS.

SPEAKER_02 46:02

You know, I'm pretty sure that I was part of the NWO something. I think though I got involved in it, I just went to school one day and was like, congratulations. I thought I was in the ball wolfback.

SPEAKER_03 46:11

Hey.

SPEAKER_01 46:14

No, what I'm saying is uh Hogan Nash that the origin talking NW, yeah, before it just uh became the entire Ross.

SPEAKER_02 46:28

I was gonna say before it became a Ross. I'm saying look, when Disco Inferno starts working in NWO, what's the way the Disco Inferno is? They know that little fucking thing still you know, man. Lend Gilbert whatever what this is.

SPEAKER_01 46:49

Yeah, yeah. So I got NWO the original three, the three. The real the real NWO. Real NWO. The original Moon World Wars. You got a number three. Yes. Okay. Yeah, I guess so. Devon Dallas. Well, you said you remember him in my childhood's birth? Yeah, I do. Because I love DDP. I knew uh all my sister, I used to go to my sister. Oh her dad said, damn. And they would be lying. I learned something new every day. That's what I said. Do the damn colour. And I used to do the damn colour all the time. Well, my sister's elbows. He'd be like, you do the thing. And I would just go up like it. I was what eight, nineteen, or something like that. And I wouldn't do the damn colour every time. And then my will love to do it because I just love it. So yeah, it's my other two. DD TD is what's do black and this to me. Yes. Get out of the break.

SPEAKER_02 47:55

I'm seeing it in your face, dog hugging. I can hear it in your voice and everything. It's like, no, I understand.

SPEAKER_00 48:00

I love yes. Are you doing the yoga thing now? Say, bro, man.

SPEAKER_02 48:04

Yoga thing. I don't know. I don't know if you know anybody who's ever done it. But they swear by that shit. And all these wrestlers he's done say from the branch of you know another tragic story.

SPEAKER_01 48:14

DDP yoga. That's some real shit, right there. I love DDP. Yes, DDP is my as a hell of a man. Jesus. It ain't even about it's not about the wrestling. It's not. I'll do both. You know what? To another fucking thing about him.

SPEAKER_02 48:31

He started at 35 as a wrestler. Like he was a manager and everything else in pull that name they said like 35 years old. He was like, I'm gonna try. I'm the devil with it, you know, and nowadays, like if you look at the average age of movies top wrestlers in WWE, it's around the 40s. Yep. So it's yeah, and so it's not as like as big of a deal as it would have been back then. Because back then, if your guy was like 30 years old, like that's all right, man. You need to start knowing him thinking about, you know, winding it down. So for him to be 35 and be like, ah, fuck it, I'll go ahead and start. And then become a world champion. Like you you didn't just go out there and be like, ah, I'll go out there and do a couple matches, you know, be like a little jobber or whatever, you know.

SPEAKER_01 49:24

Yeah, you came out there and you made yourself a fucking star. I wasn't what they say, made himself a stone. You imagine, and I even just again, dude, like he's in the outlet.

SPEAKER_02 49:33

Oh god, yeah, because like he made himself a star in an era where there were so many people coming into WCW pre-built stars.

SPEAKER_01 49:42

Hollywood, Hogan, Hulk Hogan, whatever, which would be the Savage, you had Ronnie Piper, you had like Hollanez.

SPEAKER_02 49:49

Yeah, you had Holland, you had all these people coming in there who already had like these the names, thing names, they all they had that that status pre-built in, and you had DD B who had been there, you know what I'm saying, just kind of like toying around a little bit amid carb.

SPEAKER_01 50:10

Yeah, to do what you need, to use my sleep button. Yes, yes. I love missing what I made this page. I believe it to use my number two. You didn't see that cover, did you? No. I didn't know about you and uh Mr. DDP. Man, I used to do a damn card. Yeah, this is news to me. I was at my own. Oh he doesn't realize it, man. But whenever this camera gets off before he leaves, he's gonna have to do a damn code. That's really yeah. I do so uh but number two sting. So I'm just gonna say we have to say no. Sorry, I didn't do it.

SPEAKER_00 51:00

No, no, because now it was now yours I'm sure yours is the answer, but my personal number one.

SPEAKER_01 51:10

Okay, who's your personal number one? Sorry. Uh there's a lot of great westers in the outstanding the reason this person is my level one is because he has a very distinct dissimilarity. Okay, so I think I know, but I don't keep going. Yeah,

Booker T And Why Representation Hits

SPEAKER_01 51:50

as well. Okay, I definitely know.

SPEAKER_00 51:55

Booker T was that different to be a yes.

SPEAKER_01 51:59

Right, back to get to be, but they say representation matters. Booker T had swag. Him and Eddie Guerrero and Baby Craig were they had swag apple wazoo. And uh I love Stevie. Stevie was like a Stevie was Stevie we all know. Yeah, who had the percentage. He was the juice. Don't he had it. Booker had it. Uh when I was create when I created wrestlers growing up, I would just quality. That's how they feel the booker T I was.

SPEAKER_00 52:36

This is so but I love Steam and I love PDP, but my number one is the so yeah, so that brings me Booker. I have a question. There's a glowing admission on my list. Huh? There's a glowing admission uh admission on my list.

SPEAKER_01 53:02

You know, so you're gonna bought a good thing, my list. Oh, hell yeah, lovely. But I do have a question now, because this makes me curious. I've never thought about that. Obviously, for you it was a bigger deal, you know, since Booker G representing John's representation and things like that. So how was it when you saw him win the world title in WCW? Like okay, yeah, being exactly. You remember Colt, oh you may not have been watching wrestling of this, but do you remember what Colfi Kingston won? Oh, yeah, I was watching. Yeah. Um the way everybody knows about when Colting won is how I forbelled when Booker T went. And don't be wrong, I felt the same way when Colton Glen, but that's how I felt with Booker T. But that's what I'm saying. Yeah. It was this oh I'm sorry. That was yeah, the move. Yeah. Oh, hell, when he wanted that to either book T one. I'm song for the move. Cause it's like, yeah, we're we can play at that level too. Basically, what about do you remember when Milan Simmons won it? I know you know. And I watched the match, yeah. But yes. Um I well, I seen it, yes. I still feel like even despite that moment, like that was a huge moment, too. But there was something about but the chief. So that's a it just felt bigger. It felt it could have been. Yeah, it felt like yeah, like there's just something about that moment when he did that. And I don't know if it was because he had been busting his ass for so long and he deserved it. I think it just felt like a long time booker teeth. Or there's something. I mean, like I said, booker team with it, uh, I felt the same way we, unless I was but because it's crazy. Representation matters, but like you said, it's something in the middle, like on the uh, yeah, now I'm drawing the black on his name, uh muscle ball, black dude, bow head, poppy lash. Oh yes. He doesn't feel the same. I don't know why. But I guess it's you know what? Because the way you said it, you we saw Kokey grind. We wouldn't have done called him together. Yeah, with Booker T. And I feel like that's what it is, too. Like Ron Simmons when he won it. It's fucking awesome. But I just you didn't see the the build up, the long the long game that took so long to get there. And if you and that might also just be because at the time, like you know, you're independence or something, yeah. So you didn't get to see that before then. I don't know. But with you know like with Booker T meaning and WCW and like you saying, Koki and WWE, that you got to see them for so long to me and just working at it, working at it, about the chopping at that damn tree to finally get that. You know, even though they felt the same.

WWE Black Champions And Disrespectful Losses

SPEAKER_01 56:40

Booker, you you knew who was gonna get it at some point. Mm-hmm. The difference with copy is you never thought culty was gonna get it. No, you never thought cultural still be at the other way, Copy Wilster.

SPEAKER_00 56:52

I guess we'll say that's another card.

SPEAKER_01 56:54

But the white copy was it? I'm still upset about it. I am fucking, I'll just say I am upset with the way the WWE treats the majority of the blind champions and how they find a deal. Jay also, how long did Jay get to two? Was it Jay? Yes, Jay. Okay, I was gonna say it was Jay. It was Jay, yeah. I'll be a piece of shit if I say it's Jay and it was Jimmy. No, it was Jay. I'm saying, dude, Jay got to keep that title for like uh a sneeze. Yeah. He didn't get the mile title. No, he didn't like big down the way. Yeah, yeah, he didn't get nothing like that. Uh same with Kofi. Yeah. Uh Kofi had a couple defenses. Yeah, Kofi had a couple, but then the way he lost the problem. The way he lost it, yeah, exactly. Like, that was the most disrespectful shit, man. The way you just said disrespectful shit was one of them the mess that he lost his title to the buckle isn't. And it was a beautiful laugh at that. That was true. The truth. It takes us longer to get out. That was some disrespectful shit. Yes, did it? Yeah, I'm saying the bell time between now. It's just and remember, they had to count one, two, three, isn't it? No, no, it was it was disrespectful how coasting was that that title. I'm not gonna say it until I can't say it no more. So yeah, disrespectful. But here's the thing though. And uh I I forgot was it was Instagram. I saw it on Instagram. They always point out that as much as we say like Deb J or your Romans and with Rocks, they really not. That means they're black, but they're really simple. So actual black champions like African Americans, it's three. I will never bring that up because I don't think I'm black. Okay, okay. But I'm gonna say it's Bobby actually, it's yeah, it's Vicky, it's cozy. Then before, then you go back to Booker T and when I said, but that's basically it. As far as like actual African Americans, yeah. They book they booked them all. I ain't gonna say horribly, but it's uh yeah, it's not horrible, but it's not good. But it's not, it's not of the it's not of the, it's not like the CM Punk level or like something like that. You know what I mean? They don't give them the time to develop their shine. It's not to the caliber level of the other brushes. Yeah, AT listen real. A lot like the J's and the Romans, it's not because they couldn't fan them. Oh yeah. Yeah. So they don't book deal because they you can connect it. You could alpha lift it out of the other one. Yeah. So yeah, no, but no, as far as actual African Americans know that people to stop my head. Actual African Americans only think of two of them. Well, that's Kofi. Is it actual actor that is African Americans? It's old and dude, too. I didn't know if Zay was no Kofi was the one they were trying to play. Yeah, something he's a director, yeah. Yeah, nah, as far as actually on Magne Watson, the L. I don't know. I'm sure Carmelo is a Bunella, my bell mellow. Is Street's still there? Thank you. I appreciate you for helping me out. See, you know more than my dancers than me.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:37

I'm sitting there trying to think of like things in NXT and everything too, because I'm like Javon Evans.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:41

Yeah, I'm thinking of Trent Williams, I thought more in I thought I was more in NXT than I did. But yeah, yeah, no, I forgot about Street Prophets. I forgot about Melo. I'm pretty sure somebody else on I'm sure there's other ones people that are just gonna be like, huh? Yeah. What about these? Yeah, but it's harmless. They ain't actual, yeah. Oh my god, the number one.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:04

I went on the hell tag, my father.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:06

That's what you're sounds all good. Uh and honestly, not surprised now, but Ric Flair versus the Rick Flair.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:18

I had a good nice.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:19

Yeah, so say you did the horse and all that. Yeah, yeah. And getting again, different timelines. Yeah, you know, growing up, 80s, night, like late 80s, early 90s Ric Flair. There is a reason why they made the song Ric Flair Drip. Even this man, they put him in so many rap songs because 80s, 80s Ric Flair, you ain't fucking with him, okay?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:51

My man would let you know you ain't fucking with it, too. He'd like you see this Rolex, fucking Gucci, slippery, all kinds of shit.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:59

Just like, he just let you know. Like, I'm Limousine Ryan, Jet Wide, you're gonna do it. He deserves to be over the list. You're right. Yes. I did do a cop out. Honestly, I need a cop out, because I didn't even put Hogan over this. But I put Hall of Nash together. I had so I had Hogan on mine, but then when I started thinking about like, I got Hogan, but also had NWO. That's just NWO right there. So yeah, no, I could see it. Oh, I understand what you're what it was. Can I ask you a question? What's that? We're gonna get to our the the collective top 10, but I'll do more than this. What do you think killed WCW

What Killed WCW Ego And Creative Control

SPEAKER_01 1:02:50

means? What do I think killed WCW? Ego. I was I had some names, but ego. I just I just I don't put it now, I don't even put it to names, but yeah, I just feel like it boils down to ego. You got too many people in there with too when you start giving wrestlers power and control over you know what I'm saying, like creative control type things, you really are not doing anybody any favors. And one of the stories, you know, that I hear about that really fucking, I always wonder about it, was Star K 97, Sting in Hogan. Did you see that or anything? So you ever heard about the story about that? So uh the shady finish was because apparently, you know, Hogan had creative control at the time. Yeah. So if he just went in one morning and was like, no, I just decided last night I don't want to lose to that. Guess what? He had to go lose. So apparently he had had an interaction with Sting that day at the bucket show. And whatever it was about that interaction, he just decided he went back to dish off and goes, I don't think he's ready, right. And then they altered the fish to make it one. Jesus. Yeah. That's why that's why it looked like shit. Yeah, it was supposed to originally just be sting-winning, like we all want. Like the ending that it deserved and should have gotten, we should have gotten, yes. Because you give people ego will destroy them. Bro, you can look at politics, right? Yeah. That's an ego. That's ego.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:51

I was gonna say them that if you say everybody's off, everybody should not make lights up. Yep. Then I also don't go ahead. To a smaller, this is very smaller to be. What we mentioned earlier.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:02

Once you start putting everybody in the NWO, you kind of, it's like, who's in where? So we got NWO beefing with the upper NWO. But they were never running that well, so they just kept going back to the NWO idea. It's like, guys, y'all have to. Like at some point, the NWO needed to die. Yep. It needed a conclusion, a a very definitive conclusion, and then you have to pickup somewhere after that. But they didn't do that. Instead, they kept going back to the NW over, back to the NW over, back to it. And then I guess I guess you could really sit there and try to like 10 point a sing a single moment that it ruined it.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:52

Anger poker dude.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:00

Your champion on TV fingerpunk drops falls down right at the night after winning the championship of Ball Paul Correct. And yeah. This is not it. I think, yeah, because I remember ah. Okay, I'll check it. But Nash won the title. Star Cape from Dolver. Beat that you know, destroy the underpeat strict, whatever ended it. Next night goes out there on Raw. Fun chunk. Nitro. Uh goes out there on Nitro. And yeah, dude loses in May to Hogan. I mean, the finger Pokedeom is such a big deal that it's got its own Wikipedia page. That's right there, though.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:53

You type in finger poke and it's gonna just I'll let you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:58

Right. That isn't that is a bad moment of history. Because not that Single May should have all its own Wikipedia page. But it does.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:07

Shit like 9-11 deserves its own Wikipedia page. Not the finger poke of doom. No! You're the actual story. Yeah, like we need some shit like you know, the Hindenburg, whatever. It's like we need things like that, but instead you can book up the bigger poems and it's mashed problem on this.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:33

Yes.

Starrcade 97 And Finger Poke Fallout

SPEAKER_01 1:07:35

Uh so we gotta come to a collective of top t. Yep. That's what we'll start at the top. Like we did last time because it was a little easier once we started at the top. Yes. So one. Do we go sting or in the wall?

Building The Shared WCW Top 10

SPEAKER_01 1:07:55

Or flare? I will always go flare and hold the flare one. Always. He is WC down. Him and Sting really are guys. So I was gonna say that means we all go Sting too. Okay. That's such a poof. So three.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:29

Domain through it. Nah. Make sure put that parentheses.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:41

Okay. They are four. Bulker T. Over Goldberg?

SPEAKER_01 1:08:52

Yeah. I'm not arguing with you, I just wanted to make sure. Yeah. No. I just wanted to make gold. Goldberg had his yeah, that was wrong. But I feel like Booker T was there for the walk home. Five.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:11

Goldberg? Yeah, Goldberg is I got three names.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:31

And I was one of the shows. Richie Single. Macho. Mm-hmm. Did you say like saluted? Yeah. Damn, hadn't we not? I didn't forget him. But I'm saying in this, I think we kinda count him. What a soul. Okay, you dead. I didn't forget him in my. No disrespect. But yeah. But yeah. Ricky, Macho, or Lex. Macho. I feel like Lex goes night stuff. Them two are just Macho man. Yeah, it is. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:26

So they're more going at the same time. No.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:35

No, I gotta put Robert's. I don't care.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:53

Okay. I'm gonna go with your mission. Okay. Nice.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:09

We got names like Chris Jericho that wasn't mentioned. Oh, Course Ray. Oh, we got a oh, we didn't. We got Ricky Steamboat, and we only got two just two people two people two people, two spots left. Trying to think of like anybody else that he had failed. Because there are so many people that we have failed in this shit throughout the course of yeah, hold up. So is this somebody too that I feel like crap that we didn't mention for the attitude era, but they weren't around for most of it? So maybe we should give it to them. Bret Hart. No. So that's why he was there. Like, where do you put boy? Well, he was there for attitude. So but but how much of attitude was he there for? He was the in the beginning. He was there for the beginning. In the first couple years, but then he was the first couple years? Was he? Oh because attitude era, like if you think about if you think about SummerSlate, like we're talking about earlier, Summer Slave 97 was him against uh Undertaker with uh Shawn Michaels' referee.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:27

So Bounder Series 97 was when that motherfucker got Montreal screw job went on his job.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:33

So he was right out of the attitude era within like you know four months. So one of WWE's WWE's special Mankin Haskin is 16 so that's not putting them in 10, those it's not crazy. They got it. I know, I just wonder like they where do you I thought he was before? Like you said, he was only there for what a year and a half. He wasn't uh yeah, you know, it's listening again. It depends, I guess like again. If you think about WrestleMania, if you think of it as WrestleMania 13, then he was there for maybe six days, seven months, maybe seven months of it. Yeah, it's so crazy. It's another night including well go ahead, but expensive but I'm just doing yeah, Scott Stein, Mr. Stein Votus. There it is, man. I thought there it is. When they know the role for results, or no, there'll almost be a tie. So we don't copy have football for dead sites. We probably need to do that. Okay, yeah. What about Johnny?

unknown 1:14:02

Dang it.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:03

I mean, I'm a little bit on the team, but I so I'm looking again with the WhatsApp, please do this. WWE or some of these people, because yeah, these are so many wrestlers. WWE's website has Sting Y1. Yeah, work for it to Bone Night 3, they bought down the of course, Goldmart at 4, Nash at 5, DDP at 6, uh Lex Moonwood at 7. Do we have DDP get on this list? No, we do. Booker T at 8. We don't have to macho at 9, Scott Steiner at 10, Vader at 11, Hall at 12, Dean Malinko at 13, Sid at 14, and they actually have stunning Steve Waltz at this. I'm surprised by that. And then Wan Simmons at 16, Arn at 17, Andy Guerrero at 18, which I was almost streaming, but this is just rain. Okay, sorry. Uh the giant at 19 and then 20, Brian Pillman. Ooh, Brian Pillman. Oh my god. I feel bad flying the line. I used to love Washington.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:26

D E E A has to be on this list. Okay, so so we're at eight. So at eight, we're gonna put roll warriors in the standards. Yes. Okay. So then we put Moonik and I. Yeah. Okay, that's it.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:47

So then look. There's the giant. There's Ray. I love the giant.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:01

Don't get me more. Okay, so you can dole the giant? No. Okay, I was in a twist. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But okay, cool. That's cool.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:12

That's cool.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:12

I love the giant, man, but the cruiserweights, man, they did they did. They did the damn thing. It's also for seven months. What's that? It's also Chris Jericho. Yeah, we have not mentioned Chris Jericho at all. Stupid. It's because you took off the giant. So Chris. What do you think? So if I'm writing it down between Eddie, Bray, Eddie Jericho, Chris Jericho. Personal intro. Uh-huh. My unbiased and sad is. I think Chris Jericho. I was gonna say it as Chris Jericho. When Jericho finally started right before he got Ralphus, you know what I'm saying? He finally started developing that character. Yeah, it becomes like thought of tantrums or whatever. Yes. Yeah. It's like, oh, this baby he can wrestle. And

Final List And Sign Off

SPEAKER_01 1:17:10

so now we get to see the character. So we'll give Jericho.

unknown 1:17:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:15

And also I'm gonna be a little bit biased here because Ralph is I seen him at my first WCW show when I got his autograph. I wish I still had it. But uh okay, so one is Rick Fuera, two is Steam, three is NWO, On and All Edge, four is Wicket, five is Gold Word, six is Macho Man, seven is Lex Muller, eight big Dual Copcom. World Warriors Time with Style Brothers, nine is DDP and ten is creature. Yeah. So like we did, we did a good list. We did. I'm proud of what's in that. I'm very proud of this. Ah, yeah, it's not gonna be respectful. Oh, yeah. Respectfully. Y'all. Yeah. Although that's not what y'all think. Fuck yeah, I love you. Yeah, you gonna put the other night first?

SPEAKER_02 1:18:14

Oh, yeah, there's that too.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:18

I just wanted to say it. I know this. Yeah, it's your boy, this is better. I can't say your name upon spot. Mine, I can put you in mind. Thank y'all for listening to the another episode of respectfully.